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To: MJY1288
The On-Star system was recently used by a rental car company to add fees to a person who had rented a car. You see, the system told the rental agency that the person driving the car had been speeding, so the agency taked on a speeding fine to the tune of $200 or so dollars... no cops required.

I have no use for On-Star.

18 posted on 08/26/2002 6:18:22 PM PDT by RikaStrom
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To: RikaStrom
Can you provide a link to that story, I heard that that story was "Urban Legend"
21 posted on 08/26/2002 6:21:03 PM PDT by MJY1288
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To: RikaStrom; Syncro
Hopefully something will be invented by an aspiring entrepreneur to screw up the calibration of those things. Of course, it won't be cheap, and will be useless within 2 years as technology changes.
23 posted on 08/26/2002 6:26:03 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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